Cultural challenges in caring for our patients in advanced stages of cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-158

  Biasco, Guido ^a   Surbone, Antonella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LETTER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CULTURE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 58149329108     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.9455     Document Type: Letter

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